Defendant, Since Her Arrest, Has Helped Authorities With National Security Investigations

An American woman who used the online name "Jihad Jane" and admitted to conspiring to wage jihad overseas was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Monday by a federal judge in Philadelphia.

Colleen LaRose, 50 years old, who pleaded guilty in 2011 to four charges related to giving aid to terrorists, faced a maximum sentence of life in prison. But she received far less after federal prosecutors asked the judge, Petrese B....